"Mr. K. MUIR MACKENZIE, Q.C., Permanent Sec. to the LORD CHANCELLOR, has been made a Companion of the Bath."--_Daily Paper._ * * * * * PLEASANT SPOOKERY. Yes, thanks to BRANDON THOMAS'S skill, and PENLEY'S comic _nous_, The lucky "Globe" may well be called the real '_Aunt_-ed House! * * * * * [Illustration: BABY-WORSHIP. (THE POINT OF VIEW.) "YOUR NIECES SEEM VERY FOND OF BABIES, MR. SINNICK. I SUPPOSE YOU ARE TOO?" "OH YES; LIKE 'EM AWFULLY; ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY BEGIN TO _CRY_." "AH, YOU THINK THE DEAR LITTLE THINGS ARE IN PAIN?" "YES; AND SOMEBODY RINGS THE BELL, YOU KNOW, AND THE NURSE COMES, AND THE DEAR LITTLE THINGS ARE TAKEN AWAY TO THE NURSERY!"] * * * * * THE HANDY BOY. ["In the office he held, which in reality was much too heavy for any single man to bear, it was necessary to live almost a monastic life, and the eight hours which some persons regarded as a maximum of toil seemed to those who occupied that position a dim and distant and golden vision."--_Lord Rosebery, at the opening of the Battersea Town Hall_.] _The Missis soliloquiseth_:-- Ah! he's really the usefullest boy, that young PRIMROSE, that ever we've had, And I'm sure I don't know, not sometimes, how we'd get along, but for that lad! So willing, and so civil-spoken, yet none too much given to mag. He does the House credit all round, and I'm sure he's the pick o' the bag. Gets through his own work without worrit, and then he's so good at odd jobs! Which some servants are awfully uppish, and thinks themselves no end of nobs. But PRIMROSE is pleasant and modest, you know where the boy's to be found, And there's nothing he won't turn his hand to, to make things agreeable all round. Heigho! How I wish----But no matter! Young PRIMROSE, he _knows_ such a lot, And he seems to be trusted by all, which some of us, I fear,--well, are _not_. There is WILLIAM, the butler, and John, now; they 're excellent servants, of course, Yet they don't seem as happy as PRIMROSE, although the boy works like a horse! _His_ task's to attend to the door, which needs wonderful quickness and tact; For our visitors, foreign and others, _are_ troublesome, that is a fact. But Russian, or Frenchman, or L.C.C. boss from out Battersea way, Or a working-man out of a job, PRIMMY always knows just what to say. He's a treasure, that boy; and I'm always a-putting fresh work on his back! There's this Coal Question now! Awful worry! He has such a wonderful knack I am sure he might settle _that_ shindy. If so he will just be a jewel! If pig-headedness holds on _both_ sides, we shall presently run out of fuel.